Introduction
This paper discusses the interaction between foragers and
farmers during the various phases of the neolithisation
processes in south-western and north-western central europe.
The disparate state of research on Late Mesolithic
hunter-gatherer groups and early Neolithic farmers in
terms of the certainty of the detailed chronology, the number
of sites and the comprehensiveness of the find and feature
analyses, does not permit a discussion on the basis of
equally-weighted data....

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